The 10 Best Things to do in Kielce, Central Poland

Indoor sports complex, accommodating two small or one big football pitch, with changing facilities downstairs. Available for football classes, amateur teams league or for hire as a event venue.

The establishment of the Botanical Garden is yet another major step towards promotion of tourist must-sees in the city of Kielce and Swietokrzyskie region as a geotourist and naturalist’s paradise, bringing education as well as geological and ecological experience to the visitor’s fingertips. The entire facility and green area complex have been designed on the axis of the historic road which led to the monastic complex and the natural reserve of Karczowka hill. Exhibition part of the Garden was fully opened in 2020, and located on the exposed hill slope. Here, individual sections of the Garden have been located, where homogeneous, specialised collections will be housed. Four water reservoirs have been designed for the purposes of presentation of aquatic and littoral vegetation. An interesting fact in the Garden are numerous rock exposures with caves observed in the ground. Moreover, the exhibition part shall contain children and teenagers’ teaching activity spots.

Kadzielnia is Kielce’s most famous old quarry. The area, as the Kadzielnia Park and Reserve, covers about 14 ha. The central part of Kadzielnia, the Skałka Geologów (Geologists’ Rock) is under legal protection as an inanimate nature reserve. The remaining part of the area is protected within the Kielce Protected Landscape Area. It is worth mentioning and emphasizing that in the vicinity of the reserve is located, among others, the famous amphitheater, where numerous entertainment events take place. A new and very interesting attraction in this area is the Underground Tourist Route. Kadzielnia is a place with an interesting history, rich resources of animated nature, but most of all, a place that you must visit when you are in Kielce. You can spend a nice time here, relaxing while walking among the rocks, where the history of the tropical sea from hundreds of millions of years ago has been recorded.

The Centre of Geoeducation in Kielce is a modern facility, integrated into the captivating landscape of the Wietrznia reserve of inanimate nature, named after Zbigniew Rubinowski. The project has been implemented of the initiative of the Geopark Kielce, a division of the Kielce City Hall which deals with administration of geological sites and promotion of geotourism in the city. The Centre of Geoeducation comprises several elements which considerably enrich the concept of the swietokrzyskie Archeo-Geological Trail as a tourist product, especially in terms of the recently popular geotourism. The Centre of Geoeducation includes: The permanent exhibition „Chronos” – an exhibition where a variety of aspects of the Swietokrzyskie Mountains geo-diversity is presented, including the Devonian display which shows – by means of attractive, state-of-the-art exhibition methods – the most interesting Devonian rocks found in our region. An unique 5D Cinema, which will take the spectators

The quarries in Ślichowice exploited the lime raw material as early as the interwar period. During exploitation in the excavation, unique tectonic phenomena were discovered, and therefore, in 1949, a part of the discovery was protected as a monument to inanimate nature. The high scientific and didactic value of the discovery meant that on 18 June 1952 a strict nature reserve was established - the Jan Czarnocki rock reserve. The reserve protection included a rock perch separating the former excavations with an area of 0.55 ha. In order to better explore the quarries, Geopark Kielce has prepared paths where didactic boards have been placed, which are a source of knowledge about the facility.